After being closed to the public for nearly a month due to a wildfire, the Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoias in Yosemite National Park is once again open to the public.

This spring, the National Scenic Byway Foundation awarded the Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation the 2022 Visitor Experience Award for the rehabilitation and reopening of The Bluffs Restaurant at Doughton Park on the Blue Ridge Parkway in Laurel Springs.

Nāhuku lava tube in Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park is closed until further notice while geologists study its stability in the wake of movement of a large rock slab in the tube.

Beavers fueled an 18th and 19th century rush to the Western half of North America by mountain men, and veered towards extinction due to that, before making a comeback in the 20th century. Today, while many communities view the rodents as nuisances that dam creeks and chew down trees, the National Park Service is turning to these ecological engineers to revive wetlands in the National Park System.